http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/communist-rebel-leader-captured-philippines-20121006


Communist rebel leader captured in Philippines


Published on Oct 06, 2012



MANILA (AP) - Philippine troops have captured a senior communist rebel leader 
who had received military training in Libya and carried a S$166,000 bounty. 

Regional military spokesman Col. Generoso Bolina says New People's Army 
regional chief Benjamin Mendoza and three other suspected insurgents were 
arrested in the early hours of Saturday outside their hideout in suburban 
Quezon City. 

He says Mendoza underwent commando, heavy weapons, bomb-making and sniper 
training in Libya in the early 1980s. 

Bolina says Mendoza planned several successful raids and ambushes against 
soldiers and police. In one raid, New People's Army guerrillas freed nine 
detained rebels from a jail in Batangas province south of Manila



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